Waiting on Wednesday #10

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that allows readers to showcase eagerly awaited upcoming releases. The week I have been waiting on Crash Into You by Katie McGarry!

From acclaimed author Katie McGarry comes an explosive new tale of a good girl with a reckless streak, a street-smart guy with nothing to lose, and a romance forged in the fast lane 

The girl with straight As, designer clothes and the perfect life-that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private-school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy parents and overbearing brothers...and she's just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker-a guy she has no business even talking to. But when the foster kid with the tattoos and intense gray eyes comes to her rescue, she can't get him out of her mind. 

Isaiah has secrets, too. About where he lives, and how he really feels about Rachel. The last thing he needs is to get tangled up with a rich girl who wants to slum it on the south side for kicks-no matter how angelic she might look. 

But when their shared love of street racing puts both their lives in jeopardy, they have six weeks to come up with a way out. Six weeks to discover just how far they'll go to save each other.

After loving McGarry's debut of Pushing the Limits and loving Dare You Too, I am super excited for Crash Into You AND it is Isaiah's story :D *squeell* 

Crash Into You is out November 26th! So get onto it and if you haven't read PTL or DYT you should go check them out! You can find my review of DYT here! 

What are you waiting on this week? Let me know!

Keely xx

A to Z Book Survey!

Jamie over at The Perpetual Page Turner makes the funnest posts - she's the one that started the End of Year Book survey and she just made this fun one A to Z survey!

Author you've read the most books from
Carolyn Keene the author behind Nancy Drew! I don't know how many that I have read but there is a lot and I love Nancy Drew! Also more recently I have read 10 books each from Ally Carter and Richelle Mead.

Best sequel ever
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas! My review wenr up yesterday and well it took me a good two weeks to write this review because it was so good!

Currently reading
I am about to start The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

Drink of choice while reading
Water

E-reader or physical copy
Both. E-reader for uni because I cannot cart my physical copies to and from uni every year for the next five years (I live on campus). But I do love physical copies because nothing is better than holding your favourite book in your hands

Fictional character you probably would have dated in High School
ZACHARY GOODE! Okay that was far fetched this teenage spy doesn't spend much time at school, lets face it the last time he went to school regularly was Sophmore year. Ryan Hunter from Play with Me by Piper Shelly because he is a soccer player! Also my ex-boyfriend from high school was a soccer player too

Glad you gave this book a chance
The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa 

Hidden Gem book
Gracie Faltrain Gets it Right (Finally) by Cath Crowley who is also the author for Graffiti Moon which I desperately need to read!

Important moment in your reading life
When I restarted my blog back up and joined the twitter and goodreads community

Just finished
If I Stay by Evan Reeves

Kind of books you won't read
I am not a huge fan of Dystopian books, I like The Hunger Games but it isn't a series that I would consider in my top 10 or even top 20.

Longest book you have read
According to Goodreads is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix- 766 pages

Major book hangover because of
Everything Left Unsaid by Jessica Davidson. I couldn't function after this book, it just emotionally assassinated me

Number of bookcases you own
I have one at home BUT I have 4 shelves and a bookcase when I am at uni. Most of my books live in boxes at the moment because I took a lot to uni and left a whole bookcase at home but of course I bought more books while being at uni so I could fill 3 of the bookcases I have at home

One book you have read multiple times
Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter

Preferred place to read
Bed. It is so comfy to lay down and relax

Quote that inspires you/gives you all the feels from a book you've read
"What is a Gallagher Girl?"
"She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... A Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be."- United We Spy
This quote is in the final chapters of the final book in my favourite series and pretty much sums up what everyone needs to know what life, you are whatever you want to be.

Reading regret
I still haven't read Percy Jackson...

Series you started and need to finish (all the books are out)
The Private Series by Kate Brain. I love those psycotic, murdering teenagers

Three all time favourite books
Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter
Graice Faltrain Gets it Right (Finally) by Cath Crowley
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

Unapologetic fangirl for
Zachary Goode- Gallagher Girls
Chaol Westfall- Throne of Glass
Nick Merrick- Elementals series

Very excited for this release more than all the others
Secret by Brigid Kemmerer because I finally get a whole book of Nick Merrick loving!

Worst bookish habit
I like to eat while I read... crumbs get everywhere

Your last book purchase
Physical Book: The Bone Season
E-Book: If I Stay

Zzz-snatcher book
Finding Olivia by Micalea Smeltzer and United We Spy by Ally Carter 

Keely xx

Review Time #43

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Mass

Eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien is bold, daring and beautiful – the perfect seductress and the greatest assassin her world has ever known. But though she won the King’s contest and became his champion, Celaena has been granted neither her liberty nor the freedom to follow her heart. The slavery of the suffocating salt mines of Endovier that scarred her past is nothing compared to a life bound to her darkest enemy, a king whose rule is so dark and evil it is near impossible to defy. Celaena faces a choice that is tearing her heart to pieces: kill in cold blood for a man she hates, or risk sentencing those she loves to death. Celaena must decide what she will fight for: survival, love or the future of a kingdom. Because an assassin cannot have it all . . . And trying to may just destroy her.

Love or loathe Celaena, she will slice open your heart with her dagger and leave you bleeding long after the last page of the highly anticipated sequel in what is undeniably THE hottest new fantasy series.

Wow. This book was just simply amazing, so many twists and turns, deaths and new magical secrets arise. It was the perfect squeal to Throne of Glass which I also loved. 

Celaena Sardothien is the King of Adarlan's Champion, pretty much meaning that she is the Kings assassin. We pick up around four months after the end of Throne of Glass and Celaena already has a secret, she isn't assassinating those who the King wants dead, but faking their deaths. We see a lot of her past in this book, why she "snapped" at Endovier, her family and Sam. 

There is a lot of secrets this time around, people are not who they seem. But really what is to be expected, they are at war and no-one knows who side everyone is on. We meet some new characters and we are reunited with some favourites, Nehemia, Chaol and Dorian are back and we meet Roland, Mort and Archer. Each of the characters plays a role in their own right and everyone is keeping secrets.

As we found out in Throne of Glass we know that a few of characters have something magical in them or at least understand what is happening around them. Celaena learns more about the Wyrdmarks from Nehemia who seems to be hiding something from her. Dorian is starting to stand up to his father, who has more power than ever and with Celaena being his assassin his threat is greater than ever. 

Chaol Westfall, Captain of the Guard, what can I say? We get to see more of him with Celaena *squeallll* and his complicated relationship with his father, yes the father who pretty much disowned when he decided to the Captain of the Guard instead of being a Lord. We also get an insight into his relationship with Dorian which is great because we didn't get to see much of this in Throne of Glass. Dorian Havilliard the Crowned Prince is finally sticking up for himself and looking past what his father is making the world become. Even after everything that happened in Throne of Glass Dorian and Celaena are still able to maintain a great friendship, the secrets that they uncover about themselves and each other. Nehemia is helping Dorian out with everything happening between their countries and his father.

Crown of Midnight was the perfect sequel to Throne of Glass the mystery, secrets and hidden pasts of characters. The ending will leave you in suspense wishing you had the next book in your hands right there and then.

Rating: 5/5

Keely xx 

Review Time #42

United We Spy by Ally Carter

Cammie Morgan has one semester left until she graduates from the Gallagher Academy. Now she just has to stay alive that long.

In the heart-bounding conclusion to the bestselling Gallagher Girls series, Cammie faces her greatest mission yet. She finally knows why the terrorist organisation called the Circle of Cavan wanted her dead, but what they have planned next is even more terrifying. And if that isn't enough to worry about, Zach is who-knows-where, and his criminally insane mother is after Cammie.

The Gallagher Girls must sneak out (of the country), track down the Circle's elite members and stop them before they unleash a plot that will change Cammie- and the world- forever. (From Goodreads) 

"Tell me Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?"... "Alive."

I have been reading the Gallagher Girls since I was 13 and in year 8 at school, I found the series at Brisbane airport where I was about to go on adventure to Cairns. That day was the first time I had ever flown on a plane and that day was also the day I found out about the Gallagher Girls. I am now 18 and in my first year of University and the final Gallagher Girls book is out. 

It is winter break, Cammie is with Bex, her mum and Bex's parents in London, of course they are on a mission with everything that has happened since Cammie came back from her summer holiday being tortured. They are on a hunt for the inner circle and of course they are very hard targets to get. 

Zach and Mr. Solomon are off on a lead, Agent Townsend and Abby on another and of course Catherine is out there with vengeance on her mind. For the girls it might be their last semester of their senior year, but it is about surviving to see graduation and the circle everywhere, even in the Gallagher Academy. 

United We Spy is so much more fast paced than any other book in the series. I read it on my kindle before my copy arrived and I felt myself going is this it? Dangerous missions that no-one can know about, traitors are everywhere and where ever you look the girls and Zach are in trouble. Travelling around the world to stop the inner circle and the original plan that Cavan had when he founded the group.

The characters, if possible, develop more so than ever before. We had Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover which had Macey's history spotlighted, Bex has had her story told over all six books, Out of Sight, Out of Time was really Cammie's book more so than the others and United We Spy was Liz's past, something that we didn't get a lot of in the other books. 

Cammie struggles with everything going on, she can't deal with people getting hurt and that graduation is literally just around the corner. The danger is everywhere and they can't hide from it when it involves saving the world from what the Circle of Cavan planned all those years ago. 

"I'm a spy, Cam. I was born to do this- to be this. It's in my blood. And I will do it until the day I die. It's who I am,"..."the thing is I don't think you realise is... it's who you are too."

United We Spy was a great ending to my favourite series, while I am sad that it all over I can still re-read the series. The secrets are all out, the future is rocky, graduation is almost here... it is time to finish things once and for all.

"What is a Gallagher Girl?"
"She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy.. A Gallagher Girls is whatever she wants to be."

Rating: 5/5

Thanks to Date a Book for the copy from last review of the month!

Keely xx

July, August and some of September Wrap Up

Hey everyone! I have a huge epic, book haul right now, yep this book haul filled up my whiteboard and some of my notebook... that's right I ran out of room. I have been MIA on the blog in the last month because uni took hold and refused to let me blog, rude right? I have FOUR weeks left of classes until my semester exams and then my first year of uni is over! But since my degree is changing next year I am here at uni for FIVE years now not four, which is annoying but I get do better units which makes me feel a little bit better.

I also got a tumblr, I don't know what I am doing with it but I found all these Teen Wolf, Gallagher Girls, NCIS, Bones, Castle and everything else gifs, and edits... I try to stay off it, I can't get addicted! My name is this blog, my spin on books so follow if you want completely random things to fill up your dashboard! 

Now time for this epic haul I have been talking about:

Bought- physical copies:

• The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
• Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Mass
• Camp Boyfriend by J. K. Rock
• Breathe by Abbi Glines
• The Academy: Game On by Monica Seles

Bought- E-Books:

• Broken and Screwed 2 by Tijan
• Jaded and Still Jaded by Tijan
• Anywhere with you by Kaylee Ryan
• Sometimes it Lasts by Abbi Glines
• Unteachable by Leah Raeder
• Shattered Hearts (1-3) by Cassia Leo
• Keep Me Still by Casey Quinn
• Beanth your Beautiful by Tamsyn Bester
• Unbreakable by Rebecca Shea
• Let Me In by Leigh Jackson
• Forever Altered by DJ. Pierson
• The Complete Memories Series by Emma Hart 
• Near and Far by Nicole Williams
• Trying not to love you and Easy to love you by Megan Smith
• This Time Around by Ellie Grace
• The Hazards of Skinny Dipping by Alyssa Ivy
• Selling Scarlett by Ella James
• Drowning in you by Rebecca Berto
• Shatter by Rachel Van Dyken
• Accidentaly on Purpose by L.D. Davis
• Three Years Later by Casey McMillin
• In this Moment by Autumn Doughton
• Where I end and you begin by Andrea Brynn

Borrowed:

• Where or When by Anita Shreve
• Body Surfing by Anita Shreve

Won:

• Dead Jealous by Sharon James

Thanks to Date a Book on facebook for holding this competition!

ARCs:

• Tempt the Stars (Cassie Palmer #6) by Karen Chance 

Thanks Penguin for this ARC, I haven't read the other books but I will look for them when I am home from uni!

So that was my hugely epic book haul since JULY, that was a long time ago, that was Winter and it is now SPRING!! Even being in Armidale and that cold winter we had, I am yet to wear jeans, tank tops and shorts every day and I love it!

Reviews will be coming soon! Also the LAST book in the Gallagher Girls series is out in TWO DAYS PEOPLE I AM NOT PREPARED FOR THIS *breathe Keely* but I am so excited for it guys!

Keely xx

Review Time #41

Dead Jealous by Sharon Jones

People think of Mother Nature as a gentle lady. They forget that she's also Death...Sixteen-year-old Poppy Sinclair believes in quantum particles, not tarot cards, in Dawkins, not druids. Last summer, in a boating accident in the Lake District, Poppy had a brush with death. But the girl she finds face down in Scariswater hasn't been so lucky. As she fights to discover the truth behind what she believes is murder, Poppy is forced to concede that people and things are not always what they seem and, slipping ever deeper into a web of lies, jealousy and heart-stopping danger, she comes to realise - too late - that the one thing that can save her has been right there, all the time.

I wasn't expecting what I got from Dead Jealous, the mystery, the romance and all this pagan influence. I love mystery books, but I have tended to find that I can easily guess who is the murder or who is running everything. However, Dead Jealous leaves you hanging on until the end as to whose done it.

Poppy has had a rough year, she almost died from a boating accident, her parents got divorced, she is in love with her best friend and her mum is getting re-married. Now she has found a dead body, a guy that seems interested in her, and is trying to find out what happened to the missing girl who the dead girl was best friends with. Poppy has her flaws like any character but one that got me was her ability to trust everyone, just because no one has done wrong by her before doesn't mean no one ever is. You would think that after finding at dead body at a Pagan festival Poppy wouldn't be so trusting. 

While the start is slow, once the mystery begins you can't help but get swept up in it, wanting to know who did it, who is going to die next and why is it all connected. Unfortunately for me I had college sport on and had to put it down, right when I didn't want to. The romance has you wishing that Poppy would just take a chance on telling Michael that she is in love with him. I enjoyed seeing things from Michael's perspective especially since you don't see some of the mystery that happens from his end through Poppy's eyes.

One of the things I enjoyed most about Dead Jealous, was that It was dark and I couldn't guess who was behind the murders. After the ending that was given and the preview of book 2, I cannot wait for the next one with the mystery that keeps on unfolding. 

Thanks to Date A Book for the holding the competition on facebook for the copy!

Rating: 4/5

Keely xx

Camp Boyfriend Book Blitz!

Today I have an extract and a giveaway! This is apart of the Camp Boyfriend Book Blitz!

Camp Boyfriend (Camp Boyfriend #1)
by J.K. Rock
Release Date: 07/02/13
From Spencer Hill Press
Summary from Goodreads:
The summer of her dreams is about to get a reality check.

They said it couldn't be done, but geeky sophomore Lauren Carlson transformed herself into a popular girl after moving to a new school halfway across the country. Amazing what losing her braces and going out for cheerleading will do. Only trouble is, the popular crowd is wearing on Lauren's nerves and she can't wait to return to summer camp where she's valued for her brain instead of her handsprings. She misses her old friends and most of all, her long time camp-only boyfriend, Seth. This year she intends to upgrade their relationship to year-round status once she's broken up with her new, jock boyfriend, Matt. He doesn't even begin to know the real her, a girl fascinated by the night sky who dreams of discovering new planets and galaxies.

But Matt isn't giving her up without a fight. As he makes his case to stay together, Lauren begins to realize his feelings run deeper than she ever would have guessed. What if the guy she thought she was meant to be with forever isn't really The One? Returning to Camp Juniper Point was supposed to ground her uprooted life, but she's more adrift than ever. Everything feels different and soon Lauren's friends are turning on her and both guys question what she really wants. As summer tensions escalate, Lauren wonders if she's changed more than she thought. Will her first big discovery be herself?

Links to: Goodreads, Amazon, Kobo, Book Depository and Barnes and Noble.

Extract #4:

“Can I ask you a question?” I’d been dying to ask him this for years, but the old me had been too afraid.

“Shoot.” He wrapped his arms around his knees and locked a hand around his other wrist.

I gathered my courage. “Why did you want to break up every year after camp?”

In the quiet that followed, I traced the white stitching on the embroidery that outlined Madison’s initial.

When Seth finally answered, his voice was low.

“It’s easier to end things on good terms than risk something going wrong during the school year.”

“Why assume the worst?” I’d never given him reason to doubt me.

“I saw what my dad went through after my mom left us.” He reached for a stick to shove the logs around in the dusty fireplace as I marveled that he’d finally admitted what I’d suspected. When Seth’s mom abandoned him, she’d left a huge hole. No wonder he had trust issues. Still, we could have worked through that if he’d given me a chance. Opened up to me like this before.

“I always figured I’d wait to get serious with anyone until I was… really sure,” he continued.

“And you were never sure of me?”

His crooked grin made a surprise appearance, but his tone was dry. “I was hoping this would be the year we’d be ready to take that step.”

Something inside me collapsed. My chest felt so tight that for a minute I couldn’t breathe. We’d been so close to developing something amazing.

“Instead, I showed up with someone else.”

Outside, the wind rubbed tree limbs against the cabin, making a squeaking scrape.

“It wasn’t just that.” He put the stick down and looked at me. Really looked me. “You showed up as someone else. Someone I didn’t recognize with a new look, clothes, interests.”

I opened my mouth to protest but stayed silent when I followed his gaze to my trendy sneakers.

“I didn’t know who you were anymore,” Seth went on. “Since when did you prefer dancing to stargazing, tanning to pursuing your Aerospace Scholar dreams? That wasn’t the Lauren I knew. Loved.”

I flinched. Who knew a verb tense could cut as deep as a knife? Seth no longer loved me because I’d changed.

How ironic that I’d come back to camp to get back to the things I’d loved, especially Seth. But Matt had stopped that chance and, suddenly, I was glad he had. What was so wrong with liking dance and astronomy? Cheering and the science club? The popular and the outsider cliques? The problem was, I hadn’t realized I could do both, be both. If I’d gone back to Seth, I would never have learned that.

I looked over at my drying wedge sandals by the fireplace. They were awesome, even if they had slowed us down. And yeah, I was the girl who worried about weather-induced hair frizz.

So maybe I had changed. And Seth had a point about letting my dreams lapse. But why couldn’t he see through the make-up and clothes to the person who still thrilled at the site of a meteor shower and drew constellations on her notebook covers?

I laid back, tired of justifying myself. “That girl’s gone, Seth. I’m different now.”

Seth stretched beside me. His amber eyes searched mine in the shadows between us, a wistful smile lifting the corners of his mouth.

“It’s not a bad thing,” he agreed, his fingers toying with my curls. “I just miss the old you sometimes.”

I closed my eyes and enjoyed his touch, knowing it wasn’t going any further. After all, he cared about someone else, someone I’d never be again.

“Sometimes…” I edged a little closer to ease the empty ache inside. “…so do I.”

About the Authors

J. K. Rock is the writing partnership of sisters-in-law Joanne & Karen Rock. Separately, they write adult romance. Together, they dream up Young Adult books like CAMP BOYFRIEND, the first in a three-book series. The summer camp stories continue with CAMP PAYBACK (4/14) and CAMP FORGET-ME-NOT (8/14), plus bonus free novellas in between stories. Visit http://campboyfriend.net to learn more about the series and the free prequel novella, CAMP KISS, which you can download here.

***Author Links***

Author Website / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Goodreads / Karen's Twitter / Joanne's Twitter / Facebook

***GIVEAWAY***Grand prize - Signed copies Amanda Ink's SUN, Jennifer Armentrout writing as J. Lynn's FRIGID and JK Rock's CAMP BOYFRIEND. Also included, advance sneak peek copy Laurie Halse Anderson's THE IMPOSSIBLE KNIFE OF MEMORY and Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian's FIRE WITH FIRE, plus an "I <3 my Camp Boyfriend" tee shirt, friendship bracelets,  'I <3 Camp' temporary tattoos, and a bookmark with the download code for CAMP KISS.

Three other winners will receive $10 Amazon gift cards

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Cannot wait to get my hands on this book! Don't forget to enter the fabulous giveaway!

Keely x